The East Indian

A NEW YORK TIMES 2023 SUMMER READMeet Tony: the first Indian to set foot on American soil.Among the settlers, slaves, and indentured servants that make the treacherous journey across the Atlantic to the New World in the early 1600s - for some, an exciting opportunity, for others, a brutal abduction - there is also Tony. As a child, his homeland on the Coromandel Coast of India becomes a trading outpost for the English; as an orphaned teenager, he finds himself kidnapped from the streets of London and bound to servitude on a Virginia plantation. But Tony is not giving up on his dreams just yet.Under the rule of a sadistic plantation owner, he forms a tender bond with a young boy who will haunt his nightmares; on an exploration inland alongside a trader and Native Americans, he realises the world is vaster and more mysterious than he could have imagined; and in Jamestown, he finally earns himself a position as a physician's apprentice, an ambition he has long harboured.The East Indian is a Dickensian-style yarn about family, friendship, and finding oneself in the seeds of a new world.

Product details

• Authors: Brinda Charry, Charry Brinda
• Publisher: Scribe Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.06.2023
• EAN: 9781914484575
• ISBN: 978-1-914484-57-5
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 220 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features, Historical fiction, FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Literary, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, United States of America, USA, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, Fiction based on or inspired by true events